"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
found out you're really something
they talk about you
then turned your confidence
against you now into nothing
grinning from the daze
petrified and blazed
feels good to know they care
special friends simply two faced
you couldn't let go
your talking got you here
tearing up everyone respect
you don't know
they say i'm jaded
cause they know it's true
with all those silly people
on the wonder wheel
glisten from the daze
purified and crazed
feels good to hear them share
hateful friends simply two faced
you couldn't let go
your talking got you here
tearing up everyone respect
you don't know
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste.
they talk about you
then turned your confidence
against you now into nothing
grinning from the daze
petrified and blazed
feels good to know they care
special friends simply two faced
you couldn't let go
your talking got you here
tearing up everyone respect
you don't know
they say i'm jaded
cause they know it's true
with all those silly people
on the wonder wheel
glisten from the daze
purified and crazed
feels good to hear them share
hateful friends simply two faced
you couldn't let go
your talking got you here
tearing up everyone respect
you don't know
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
let live let go
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste your fucking time
don't waste.
Lyrics submitted by thewhitepony33
Dissention Lyrics as written by Bobby Hewitt Amir Derakh
Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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